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In Loving Memory

TENTH ANNIVERSARY
Today is the tenth anniversary of the passing of my mom to cancer. She was 67 when she left us and she is greatly missed. She was quite the lady, a power house packed into her five foot tall frame. If you are interested I posted a picture in her honor on the expressions page you can get to it by clicking on my name. My mom…
Missing my wonderful and courageous mother
I lost my mother on 8/15/10 after a very short bout of Peritoneal Cancer, she was officially diagnosed on 7/15/10 but had been having symptoms for about 6 months prior. She was very strong but very frightened, she actually passed from an infection she caught-her WBC was 1.1, she had no defenses to fight off whatever it is…
Missing my mommy for a year :(
A year ago on July 18th, my beloved mother passed away. I am only 17, was 16 then. She was the only one to comfort me at hard times, so now I am lost without her. Besides Mother's Day, today has been one of the realest and hardest days I have yet to live without her. & I think I have finally realized I have been in shock…
Making it through the holidays
Hi, Went to see my counselor on wednesday. I told her I've been having a rough time again and think it's cause of the holidays coming. This will be my 1st thanksgiving & Christmas & New Years without my husband and I know it's going to be very hard. She said to try to remember him by lighting a candle in his memory or…
A place that tears built
Hello, We are trying to get volunteers together that would like to help with a special project for terminally ill patients and families. I had a mother and daughter that was diagnosed with cancer and sadly have lost both of them, however, my husband and I are looking to help others that are currently going through…
Remembering A Loved One
Here is a little something I have done when I have lost a lost a loved one. I start a memory page in my journal of special thoughts of them. When I lost my mom I noted how soft her skin was, how as I child I loved to watch her pin curl her hair, for my sister it was more sister type memories fun things we did as children…
My Husband Pat
In Loving Memory of my wonderful husband, my best friend Patrick Kapper who passed away May 23,2010 after battling colon cancer for two years. Dear Pat - I has been a little over three months since you had to leave. No words can describe the pain I feel since you have been gone. I think about you and I miss you every…
In loving memory of my beautiful Mother and best friend
I lost my mom on Friday July 30th, 2010 to lung cancer. She was only 67 years old. She fought a short battle with both lung cancer and cervical cancer. She was diagnosed with stage 4 before we even knew she had it. They tried 1 chemo treatment and never fully recovered. She was a wonderful person and I will miss her…
For my sister and Hubby's mom
I lost my sister, Connie, to lung cancer in 2001. She was diagnosed Stage IV with secondary tumors in one of her legs and her brain. Then, in May of 2006, my husband's mom was diagnosed with a Grade IV brain tumor. She lost that fight on the first day of March, 2007. I loved them both more than I can say. My sister was…
Today would have been my mom's 65th birthday
My mom passed away in April of this year from Extensive Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer. I just wanted to place this post in rememberance. As of this month, it has been three months since I lost my mom. My mom was a beautiful person, both inside and out. It was difficult for her to become close to people quickly, yet when she…
In Memory of my rock, my best friend, my fiance'
My fiance' passed away last night. He was 30 years old. He was diagnosed in 2008 with stage 4 lung cancer. He never smoked a day in his life. We flew from WV to MD Anderson in Houston, TX to get a second opinion. There we were told he could recieve chemo and try clinical trials. He was told that even with these treatments,…
In Memory of my Sweet Mama
My mom Mickey was diagnosed at age 61 of Stage IV colon cancer with mets to the liver last June 2009. She passed away March 13th of this year and I miss her every moment of every day. She was mom to four children including myself (from ages 20 to 30) and was an amazing mom and wife. She will always live on in my heart!…
Good Old Friends
I lost a very good friend yesterday to Lung Cancer. As a survivor myself of NPC it is so hard to loose someone to this dredged disease, and what then do you tell the wife who is now left behind. My friend never knew what really hit him, he was the picture of health two weeks ago and now he is gone to a cancer he did not…
I lost my mum to cancer whilst dealing with it myself
My mum was diagnosed with cancer last april - one month later so was I. The shock that we both had cancer at the same time was indescribable although she had secondary liver cancer (they never did find the primary) and I had breast cancer. Then my mum died 3 months from her diagnosis and just as I was starting…
IN MEMORY OF OUR LOVED ONES LOST
Thought of you today, but that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think of you in silence, I often speak your name. All I have are memories and a picture in a frame. Your memory is a keepsake, in which I'll never part. God has you in His keeping, I have you in my heart.
Kids who lose parents still grieve as adults (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/23/child.bereavement.study/index.html I've read most of the stories people shared there. Its so sad there are so many people has lost their parents when they were young. (1/7 of population, believe it or not). And many of them are due to cancer. Many of the stories bring tears to my eyes.…
Breast, Lung, Hip & Liver Cancer.
My mom was diagonsed when she was 28 years old. I was 11, and my brother was 6. It was a very hard day. To watch the person you love tell you that their body is fighting them. She was diagonsed with breast cancer. Between then and the day she died(November 29th, 2009) at age 33 she had delt with brest cancer 3 times, lung…
My Dad. Hard to believe he died ten years ago.
I could go on and on about my Dad but I won't. I journal so I'll put all my thoughts there. But I wanted to post something. First, he had prostate cancer. They say if a man lives long enough, he'll more than likely have prostate cancer. They over radiated him. He was in Florida for that treatment. He came to New York for…
In memory of Bettyskid
I am sadden to bring the news to any and all of the passing of Bettyskid, she was the caregiver of her mother who passed a few years ago, and continued to come to the board to offer her support and to get support, for she had such a hard time with her mothers passing, and missed her dearly. She passed on Jan 21, 2010 at…
In memory of my grandfather
He was diagnosed with cancer with the information he would live about a year. This did not discourage him and instead outlived his prognosis by over six years. He had numerous conversations with doctors, researchers and patients to gain all the information he could about the cancer. He spent hours in the library learning…

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